Slack Enterprise Version Due Early 2016

By

Rachael King

Dec 10, 2015 2:51 pm ET

Slack Technologies Inc., the popular chat and collaboration service, plans to launch a new version aimed at the enterprise in early 2016. The service will include features such as unified security and administration as well as give business customers the ability to combine groups of users within an organization, according to its website.

The company, whose tools have gained some traction among startups and individual teams in the workplace, originally prepared to launch the enterprise version in 2015. But its website was updated early this fall with the 2016 launch date. A Slack spokesman said that the enterprise version has been listed on its website for more than a year and that the expected date of early 2016 has been listed on its website for months.